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Germany Will Surmount Its Current Difficulties

Your Sept. 19 editorial "The German Mess" states that "For more than a decade, Germany has suffered from low growth, high unemployment and a welfare system sinking into deeper debt."

I concur with your assessment. However, not long before that decade began, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. West Germans absorbed their Eastern brothers from an enslaved country that had been economically devastated for more than 40 years by the former Soviet Union. The state of East Germans' infrastructure, economy and...